Top photos of 2016: Photographers' favorites

WWII veteran Don Straith of Northville, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, kisses his wife of 51 years before the ceremony at the "Embracing Peace" statue in Royal Oak, Michigan, on Aug. 14, 2016. A group of people met for a Kissing the War Goodbye ceremony and kiss re-enactment at the statue.

Amateur skater Brent Behm, 18, of Commerce Township does an Ollie trick at Hart Plaza on May 13. Amateur and professional skaters were practicing for the Red Bull Hart Lines 2016 skateboard competition May 14-15.

Three-year-old Olivie Lucey of Detroit sneaks out of her pew during Easter service at the Historic Trinity Lutheran Church in Detroit on March 27.

Xzavior Martelbaliakos, 10, becomes one with the mud by relaxing in the mud pit on Wayne County Parks Mud Day at Nankin Mills Area in Westland on July 12.

NYC artist Caledonia Curry, known as "Swoon," installs her intricate exhibit of paper cutouts at the Library Street Collective gallery in Detroit on Sept. 28, 2016. Called "The Light After," the immersive installation dealt with near-death experiences.

Tracks meander around downtown sidewalks in Lansing on Feb. 24, 2016, as snow begins to fall.

Michigan offensive lineman Jon Runyan makes snow angels after the game vs. Indiana University at Michigan Stadium on Nov. 19, 2016.

Actor Mark Wahlberg films an action sequence for the movie "Transformers: The Last Night" along Shelby in downtown Detroit on July 23.

The original shoes that Art Cervi, also known as Bozo the Clown, wore for his "Big Top" TV show are twice as long as normal shoes. Now 82, he gave an interview at the Hockeytown Cafe in Detroit on Oct. 13.

Joseph Llano holds a handcrafted stained glass panel of Jesus at Gethsemane in place while it is secured at Addison Congregational Church in Addison, Michigan, on Aug. 25.

Caroline Klintefjord of Sweden washes a Highland steer belonging to LEA-White Farms of Charlotte, Michigan, at the 2016 Michigan State Fair at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi on Sept. 1. Klintefjord, who has Highland cattle of her own in Sweden, was studying the breed while visiting Michigan.

Clouds obscure the super moon above the Fisher Building in Detroit on Nov. 14.

President Barack Obama stops at the Jolly Pumpkin Brewery in Midtown Detroit for lunch, sitting with Teana Dowdell, an autoworker at General Motors Detroit Hamtramck Assembly, and Dr. Tolulope Sonuyi, an emergency medicine physician, at right. The president made the surprise stop after visiting the Detroit auto show on Jan. 20.

The GM Heritage Center's Peggy Vezina sits in a 1969 512 Electric Experimental Vehicle with Detroit Tigers outfielder J.D. Martinez when the Tigers visit Make-A-Wish recipients and the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights on Jan. 22.

Detroit City Football Club's fans show their enthusiasm with colorful smoke flares after DCFC scored first in a friendly game against FC United of Manchester, England, at Keyworth Stadium in Detroit on May 28.

Two people in a fishing boat watch as a ship glides through the fog on the Detroit River on April 11.

Australian pop singer Sia, left, was joined by dancer and former "Dance Moms" reality show actress Maddie Ziegler for Sia's Nostalgic for the Present Tour stop at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Oct. 15.

Fall colors from an airplane over Wayne County on Oct. 31.

A member of the Martin Luther King High School JROTC waits to present a rose on the grave markers of members of the 102nd U.S. Civil War and Native-American Troops. The occasion was the Nov. 11 32nd annual Veterans Day Observance Ceremony hosted by the Detroit Historical Society at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit.

After landing in a helicopter, Police Chief for the Day Rodney Burton III, 7, greets actual Detroit Police Chief James Craig in front of police headquarters.

Street art decorates the sides of the former Gabriel Richard Institute, now boarded up, near Eastern Market in Detroit on Aug. 9.

A rainbow appears over Comerica Park on June 6 as the Tigers meet the Toronto Blue Jays. It might have been a lucky sign, as the Tigers prevailed, 11-0.

It was bound to happen at some point at Bark at the Park at Comerica Park on June 21. Emma makes a pit stop between third base and home, while her owner, Jake Bickerstaff, gets ready to bat clean-up.

Detroit artist Hubert Massey sketches a mural in a work room at Cobo Center. He was commissioned to paint a new fresco about Detroit at the remodeled Cobo.

Two brothers, fans for different teams, hold up their signs as Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels returns to the dugout in the sixth inning at Comerica Park on Aug. 27.

Donald Trump brings a group of boys on stage wearing T-shirts that spell his name at a campaign event at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in Sterling Heights on Nov. 6. The boys are, from left, Michael Sakowski, 12, Matthew Sakowski, 11, Dylan King, 12, Evan Sakowski, 8, and Bryce King, 12.

Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, former Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, and head football coach Jim Harbaugh perform the dab dance step together at the Signing of the Stars event for Michigan's football recruits at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor on Feb. 3.

Red Wings Hall of Famer Gordie Howe, left, and his son Mark Howe celebrate his 88th birthday during a time out in the March 28 Red Wings vs. Buffalo Sabres game at Joe Louis Arena.

Ron and Berni King react after talking about the possibility of losing their Westland home on Feb. 22. The couple was one of 19 families suing Wayne County in federal court, alleging their foreclosures were illegal because the owners didn't receive notices and believed they had more time to pay taxes and save their properties. The Kings eventually worked out a deal with the county.

Several fire departments fight a garage fire on 31 Mile in Lenox Township, just west of Lowe Plank Rd. on Feb. 18.

Rachael Sledzinski, center, and fellow dancers attend an audition for the Detroit Pistons Entertainment Team on July 16.

Detroit Red Wings forward Dylan Larkin gives a thumbs up Aug. 18 at Willow Run Airport. Teammate Justin Abdelkader and Larkin flew with the elite Breitling Jet Team on a 25-minute flight.

On April 15, Christina Madrigal, left, daughter of murder victim David Madrigal, gets emotional as she listens to the testimony of witness David Madrigal (not pictured), her brother and son of the victim, in a preliminary examination for three suspects in the carjacking and murder of Detroit firefighter David Madrigal in December of 2015. One of the suspects, Christian Rasnick pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Yahshay Parker, left, 15, and Makayla Brown, center, 14, both of Detroit, share a laugh after watching a rap video in which Brown is one of the stars. Fifty-two Detroit middle school students graduated from the CITI (Children in Trauma Intervention) Camp during a ceremony at the Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit on May 17.

Mike Wilson of Warren enjoys sledding down a slope head first with his stepdaughter Serenity Detgen, 11, at Civic Center Park in Madison Heights on Feb. 25.

Magee Humes, executive director of the Michigan Animal Rescue League in Pontiac, engages a dog on July 14 at the renovated see-through kennel enclosure built as part of a makeover by an Animal Planet show, "Pet Nation Renovation."

Detroit firefighters battle an apartment fire the Woodbridge complex in Detroit on July 1.

A homeowner takes photos of the damage to his house that sits directly across the street from the DTE training facility at Greenfield and Allen roads where a car crash caused a gas explosion on July 2.

Renda Writer creates a message as part of his World Peace Mural Tour, at a building on the corner of Grand River and Rosa Parks Blvd. in Detroit on July 20. "I just think it's what we need," said Writer, referring to the mural's message.

An early 1950s Buick -- possibly a hearse, flower car or ambulance in its early life -- rumbles along Woodward during the Woodward Dream Cruise on Aug. 20.

Miyah Allison, 9, of Berkley, is completely drenched by rushing water as children tried to stay cool at Oak Park Municipal Pool on July 22.

A young Spartan fan reacts to a Wildcat first down in the fourth quarter as MSU falls to Northwestern 40-54 at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing on Oct. 15.

Archbishop Allen Vigneron was the celebrant of the Canonization of St. Teresa of Calcutta at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, in Detroit, Sept. 4, 2016.